On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 12:54:40PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I believe that having a (largely) strongly copyleft OS is part of a defence against commercial/government subjugations.Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software leads towards a different path, and with OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD around I don't believe Debian should compete with that. I fear there could even be a majority among voting DD's who believe the opposite today, though.
Yes, I would expect a majority among both DDs and Debian contributors in general doesn't have a strong preference for strongly copyleft software over free software in general.
That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with Seqoia, CoreUtils with UUtils, wget with (w)curl, and so on for generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed.
This is a conspiracy theory. -- WBR, wRAR
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